On the title in the community

The community, like any organization, needs incentive mechanisms. The incentive, however, is largely based on honor and respect, usually giving the members of the core community a higher title and more privileges. Casually talk about the existing technical community, how to give members Shouxian and authorization.

Apache (Apache Software Foundation, ASF) is famous in the Open source software world, and it has a good system to keep it running. Community members are grouped into categories: User, Developer, Committer, PMC member, PMC Chair, ASF memeber. Permissions from the low to high, ASF member is the core Circle members, with board election vote, you can also participate in the board election. ASF member also has the right to decide whether to accept a new project.

ASF member usually starts with these roles, such as developer, Committer and so on, and can be accepted as ASF member after step-by-step actions are proved.

The Java community is known to be large, and Java User Group (jug) and the Java Champions play an important role. The Java community has only one of the highest honors-java Champion. Java champion candidates typically have the following requirements: Project leadership, jug leadership, strong technical background, neutral views, participation in cool Java Frontier Technology, contribution to human and education, and impact on others.

The selection of the Java Champion, called Peer Review, requires a different Java Champion for the nomination, and it also requires an existing Java Champion endorsement to get the title.

Oracle has an ace project with two categories of titles, Ace and Ace Director (Ace Director), with a very detailed definition of how far in the community to get the ace title. To what extent can be promoted to ACE Director, if become ACE Director, also should undertake a series of responsibility. In response, Oracle will also give ACE Director to participate in all kinds of activities reimbursement travel expenses.

The titles of Ace and ace directors are approved by an Oracle department.

These three communities have their own characteristics, it is difficult to say who is inferior, because each community has its own positioning and goals. The open mind of the Java community, as well as the cool, humane, liberal, independent thinking, does have a big banner in values and attracts many followers. And when Java technology is no longer cool, positioning the Java community is a problem. In addition, the peer Review Mechanism on the one hand easy to form a flock of birds, on the other hand, also easy to cause inbreeding. The Oracle ACE Project has been stable because more products are being promoted than technology, products are needed in many companies and technicians, like eating every day, so this community, stability is the best choice, the product in the community will be. In the grant of ACE, the company grasps the absolute control. The Apache community is valuable in building a good biosphere, technicians, and business people can get what they need from it.

Now some people are trying to build a technology community, imagine what the community is like?

Reference:

Http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html

http://www.slideshare.net/willem.jiang/apache-8111328

http://java.net/website/java-champions/

Http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/cn/community/oracle-ace-faq-102061-zhs.html

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